More Proof You’ve Got It Really, Really Good

Sometimes you just don’t know where to file the bizarre/sad/unspeakable/appalling atrocities of the world in your swollen overcrowded war-weary Bush-beaten brain, so when you hear about or maybe click here to read the story about the 12-year-old Ethiopian girl who was abducted and dragged out into the fields and beaten by not one, not two, but seven Ethiopian men who were trying to force her into marrying one of them, and she cried out and whimpered until three very large lions came along and chased the men off and actually protected the girl until she could be rescued by people with actual souls, well, you just sort of sit there and stare and the screen and go, oh holy hell, this world is still one freakish and astounding and wildly messed-up place, a fact which is only reinforced as you read about how this abduction/beating thing is a relatively common occurrance in Ethiopian marriage rituals, and if it wasn’t for the lions the men would have almost surely beaten the girl more severely and repeatedly raped her to force her into marriage of of them at age — let’s just note this again — at age 12.

One explanation for the lions’ amazing behavior is that the girls’ crying sounded like a wounded lion cub, so they didn’t eat her. This is one theory….

The other, floated by no one in particular except me, right now, is that the lions are sentient creatures with a keener awareness and more active souls than humans and the moronic hunters that shoot them for their skins give them credit for, and on some basic, primitive energetic/spiritual level, they understood what the hell was happening and protected a brutally abused life because they could. Call me crazy.

Yes, seven men abducting a 12-year-old girl to rape and beat and force her into marrying one of them. And it happens all the time. It’s enough to make you look at your seemingly messy whiny drama-filled life and go, wow, you know what? I have no problems whatsoever.